Your message dated Fri, 23 Oct 2015 20:13:28 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#687253: geographiclib-datasets-download directory
has caused the Debian Bug report #687253,
regarding geographiclib-tools: geographiclib-datasets-download should download
data to /usr/local
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Package: geographiclib-tools
Version: 1.21-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
shouldn't geographiclib-datasets-download download the data to
/usr/local?
is there a license problem which prevents creation of a corresponding
data package?
Greetings,
karme
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages geographiclib-tools depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-35
ii libgcc1 1:4.7.1-7
ii libgeographiclib9 1.21-1
ii libstdc++6 4.7.1-7
Versions of packages geographiclib-tools recommends:
ii bzip2 1.0.6-4
Versions of packages geographiclib-tools suggests:
ii proj-bin 4.7.0-2
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On 19-09-14 22:49, Ross Gammon wrote:
> The geographiclib-tools all default to looking for the datasets in
> /usr/share. The build process defaults to this location when the
> package is built, because this is the standard place according to
> Debian Policy:
> https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-2.3.html#USRSHAREARCHITECTUREINDEPENDENTDATA
>
> As you probably never need to alter the downloaded dataset, this
> should not really be a problem. It just requires the download
> script to be run with root privileges.
>
> I am sure we could confirm with Charles Karney (the author of
> GeographicLib) the license for these datasets. But I think it might
> be more of a practical issue to package them. They exist as
> multiple compressed archives, and would need to be individually
> downloaded, and repackaged. Then it would be harder to work out if
> one of them had been updated in the future.
Closing this issue, no sense in keeping a wontfix issue around.
Kind Regards,
Bas
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